Wedding Silhouettes Photography Tips

Last Updated : July 07, 2014

Silhouettes bring in an element of romance. There is something really mystical about subjects captured as silhouettes. Weddings ring in romance and for the wedding photographer, there are a plethora of photographing opportunities spurring around. As the entire photo-shoot is planned, a wedding photographer cannot deny the opportunity of capturing the couple on the big day with the silhouette effect. It would just give in that extra dramatic and romantic effect and something, which would stay for, times to come. Here are a few tips for the wedding silhouette photography:

Wedding Silhouettes Photography Tips:

1. Plan the photo-shoot
Weddings need detailed planning for a smooth experience on the big day. Once you come to know details, make detailed plans about the photo-shoot. The wedding venue, timings all matter. Especially if the weddings are post late afternoon you could plan for silhouette photography. Research on the timings of dusk and try and also explore the venue to finalize on whether you wish to venture into silhouettes for the wedding couple. The effects are so romantic that you would wish to plan and indulge.

2. Explore backdrops
Try and explore backdrops, which will enhance silhouettes. Explore the wedding venue and select backdrops, which would not be cluttered. The dusk with the scarlet sunset and your subjects against this backdrop would make some perfect shots. Keep an open eye and you will find some good photographing opportunities.

3. Subjects should be distinct
Silhouettes are magical when the subjects are distinctly captured. As you explore backdrops, keep in mind that the heart of silhouettes on the big day is the couple and they should be obviously visible in your captures. Direct the couple for poses which would bring out the best in silhouettes. Try and keep the movement slow to capture effectively.

4. Turn off flash, use Rim lighting
It is best to turn off flash while capturing your subjects. For the silhouettes it is necessary that the background is well lit, turning off the flash would help getting that perfect silhouette effect. You could also try using rim lighting would give a nice glow to the outline of the subjects.

5. Maximize depth of field
Maximizing depth of field will bring in sharper images. Use a small aperture and choose a wide angle subjects with perfect clarity.

Backup & Transfer your Photos in Minutes

Automate backup & migration of your photos & videos with support for all top services.

(283 reviews)

Trusted by users in 125+ countries.

95,000+ Users Trust PicBackMan To Backup Precious Memories

Kip Roof

PicBackMan does exactly what it's supposed to. It's quick and efficient. It runs unobtrusively in the background and has done an excellent job of uploading more than 300GB of photos to 2 different services. After having lost a lot of personal memories to a hard drive crash, it's nice to know that my photos are safe in 2 different places.

Julia Alyea Farella

LOVE this program! Works better than ANY other program out there that I have found to upload thousands of pictures WITH SUB-FOLDERS to SmugMug! Thank you so much for what you do! :) #happycustomer

PausingMotion

I pointed PicBackMan at a directory structure, and next time I looked - all the photos had uploaded! Pretty cool. I use SmugMug and while I really like it, the process of creating directories in is pretty laborious when you need to make 80+ at a time. This was a breeze. Thank you!

Gavin Whitham

PicBackMan was really easy to setup and has been running for 3 days now backing up all my locally saved photos to Flickr. My photos are really valuable to me so it's great to be able to have them easily backed up to a secure location.

Jim Griffin

It's AWESOME!! I have tens of thousands of pictures...and they are now successfully uploaded to SmugMug, where they are safely backed up, and I can edit and organize them. If you are hesitating about using PicBackMan, hesitate no longer...try it...and you'll be glad you did!!

Robert

I started with the basic plan, went to premium and now on their platinum plan and it's more than worth the price for me. PicBackMan has saved me many tedious hours of effort moving many files between my various cloud and photo site services and my local computers.

Vlad

I am very satisfied and surprised at the same time with Pic BackMan. The service is very good and useful. I used it to transfer my photos from Dropbox to my Flickr accound. I highly recomment it.

Dave

PicBackMan was an answer to many a prayer. How can I get this MASSIVE collection of photos onto a service that cripples uploading? PicBackMan. I uploaded approximately 85,000 photos in less than a month. It would have taken me close to a year to get all of those photos where they needed to go. Nothing short of brilliant.

Dary Merckens

I have thousands of family photos and it's always been such a pain to upload them to various cloud services for offline storage. Well not anymore! PicBackMan makes backing everything up a complete breeze. I don't know how I ever lived without it!

Glen Martineau

I was poking around the Internet looking for an easy tool to help me consolidate 15 years of my pictures from Google Photos and Flickr etc - this tool was very easy to use and was painless to setup.

Wedding Silhouettes Photography Tips